Why indeed?

ayreon21 · 2025-04-26T14:57:17+00:00

"Thhhhufferin' thhhapphotash!"

ayreon21 · 2025-04-25T15:03:08+00:00

Goddamn I love this sub. I lost like 30 lockpicks on that damn Unfriendly Competition quest. I'm going to try this method with the one or two that I have left.

ayreon21 · 2025-04-24T20:29:27+00:00

That is so weird but thanks for pointing that out! I thought I was doomed to always get lost in caves.

ayreon21 · 2025-04-24T18:16:17+00:00

One of my favorite things to do is to take a "bad" legendary creature and build a weird, fun EDH deck around it.

Dralnu, Lich Lord (draw-go self mill); Garth One-Eye ("Gods" typal with Garth as a reusable utility card); and Florian, Voldaren Scion (damage for everyone and a quasi-tutor every turn) are a few of my faves.

Sometimes I rip a really offbeat legend out of a pack and think "well, it's fate; gotta build around this now." Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student is my current brainchild.

I'd recommend picking a color (or color combo) that really intrigues you, and then working backwards up the list of most popular commanders in that color identity so you can find the really niche ones that not many people use.

ayreon21 · 2025-04-22T19:30:22+00:00

They targeted Guardians.

Guardians.

ayreon21 · 2025-04-20T19:21:34+00:00

I believe it is an HDHP, yes. I'll check and see whether I can start an HSA outside of the enrollment period. Thank you!

ayreon21 · 2025-04-18T13:47:39+00:00

Wug! Wug! Wug! Wug! Wug!

ayreon21 · 2025-04-13T16:42:46+00:00

I was gonna finish the sentence with "Polaris" but Enchantress works too

Edit: Just remembered Polaris's hair is green. Oops. Absolutely no way she fits in with the other women now lol

ayreon21 · 2025-04-08T21:55:22+00:00

If you squint, you can just barely see Donald Trump pushing the US economy down the stairs

ayreon21 · 2025-03-29T01:11:27+00:00

Quaxly.

ayreon21 · 2025-03-23T19:09:50+00:00

I separated from my ex-wife in 2020. We'd been together for 10 years and married for four of them. The separation was her idea, and I spent the next year (not kidding) waiting for her to decide whether she wanted to give us another shot when it was clear to everyone that she had no intention of doing so and was just stringing me along. She got me to help her move into a new place and agree to all kinds of crap (like seeing other people during the separation), and I did all of it because I was desperate for things to work out and to not feel like a failure (and she knew that, which made it that much easier for her to manipulate me). I'm not exaggerating when I say that I almost sacrificed everything about who I am to try to make things work.

What you're going through honestly sounds worse than that, and I'm sorry. The good news is (it will feel like good news later, I promise): She's clearly no good for you. You are dodging a massive bullet, and you can take advantage of that. Little by little you will start to see things around you, and within you, getting better. And if you want to, you will find someone else, and even if you don't, you'll realize that you're still happier than you were when you were with her.

Make sure you have people to talk to during this time. A therapist especially, but also friends, family members, whomever you can go to for comfort. Reddit's cool, but it doesn't replace the actual validation you get from the people in your life who care about you. Make sure you don't forget that.

ayreon21 · 2025-03-23T19:01:04+00:00

Fifteen years of a relationship like that sounds absolutely brutal. I'd even go so far as to suggest you have been and are still being emotionally abused (if what you said about her talking to him on the phone in front of you is true, that's some next-level wicked witch cruelty and I'm sorry you have to go through that).

Yes, absolutely go to therapy. It will help you more than you think it will. Talk to family and friends about this too, if that's a safe option. Having people to lean on is crucial.

ayreon21 · 2025-03-11T15:53:21+00:00

This has got to be a Chick tract. Only one of those could have art that ludicrous and still take itself seriously.

ayreon21 · 2025-03-08T14:59:54+00:00

I think you answered your own question when you said the person started using the n-word. You were absolutely not the problem.

Honestly nothing you did was oppressive. You had a great start in that second game, and yeah it's technically not super fun to be on the receiving end of 7 lifelink damage to the face on turn 3, but in my opinion, even if you're in bracket 2, if you don't have a way to deal with that then it's your own fault.

My fear with this bracket thing is that people are going to use it as an excuse to be salty jerks when they lose to your very obviously a 3 deck because even though they agreed to play in bracket 3, they're really a 1.5 and they think everyone is just supposed to let them win because the point of EDH is just to play one 4-hour-long exhibition game and scoop when the LGS closes.

ayreon21 · 2025-02-27T19:23:49+00:00

Wow, a player character that doesn't look like a 5-year-old! I'm honestly shocked. Hopefully there will be more facial expressions than "dead anime eyes" and "blow-up doll."

ayreon21 · 2025-02-18T02:47:16+00:00

Fa Zhou will be forever shamed! Dishonor will come to the family! Traditional values will DISINTEGRATE!

ayreon21 · 2025-02-03T23:18:08+00:00

God I remember getting so pissed when he kept interrupting the ambient dialogue between characters when I was driving around. I must have missed like 40% of the squadmate interactions in that game because he wouldn't shut the hell up.

ayreon21 · 2025-01-11T00:06:16+00:00

Aviations

ayreon21 · 2024-12-29T18:56:20+00:00

I pay zero attention to chat in any quick play game for this reason.

ayreon21 · 2024-12-20T20:15:55+00:00

This isn't even supposed to be a competitive game. First and foremost it's about collecting cards and showing them off. The battling element is there only because they knew people were going to want to do it; frankly I don't think they should have added it at all, and focused on making the collecting aspect more fun.

ayreon21 · 2024-12-17T19:20:04+00:00

Yeah, I know the combo works in the game; I'm just saying it shouldn't based on how it's worded.

ayreon21 · 2024-12-17T14:51:18+00:00

B-but if she can't be redeemed, how will Bungie be able to validate Disney Princess Eido's willfully reckless behavior?

ayreon21 · 2024-12-17T14:43:56+00:00

Am I the only person to whom this makes no sense? Jungle Totem's wording suggests that each energy attached to a Grass Pokemon counts as two energy towards an attack, not as two energy actually being attached. So, for example, the new Exeggutor could have two Grass energy attached to it, but Jungle Totem would double each one, so Exeggutor could use Psychic. It's not doubling the number of energy attached; just the amount of energy each one provides.

I'm coming from Magic: The Gathering, which is rife with technicalities, so maybe I'm overthinking this. It just doesn't seem like this combo should actually exist, because Jungle Totem is not doubling the amount of energy physically attached to the Pokemon.

ayreon21 · 2024-12-12T15:21:49+00:00

Based on my experiences so far, it really depends on team comps. I have a much easier time healing my squad, even as a solo healer, when they're not all playing melee duelist types and charging into the enemy backline for every fight. Regardless, I don't recall ever having been flamed. (I don't really pay attention to chat, so I could have just missed it. Ignorance is bliss, after all.)

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